Fraunces

Very nice micro in combination with the dockscene. The miniship looks a lot like her big sister!

I love how much work you put in the seperate scenes & storytelling. Very nice!

I never understood Nexo knights, but i like this build with the shields. One question ooc: what language originate the words you always use?

Welcome and may the Brick seas offer great fortune tot Flint! You have chosen the right faction mate. Great cabin vignette as well.

OOC yes, IC we track every move

Nice little build. Especially the desk and the floor stand out. haha I get that reference

Amazing video loved the lot it ! Also, great choice to add a little story to it all! Adds greatly to the nostalgic feel

Love them all mate!

Thanks for the tips!!!

@Bregir thanks a lot for the kind remarks. Light is, as you point out, my problem. I have no real photo-booth and no time to make any professional 'studio'-place to take the pictures. For just one picture I walk around the house to find the right angle-lighting combination with a white background. Really hard. But I keep trying until I have the money to buy a better camera + lights for my LEGO room. @Roadmonkeytj Thanks!

Episode 2 is up!

Episodelist: Episode I ~ Samson Brody Episode 2 ~ Fonticulus < you are here Episode 3 ~ A Blessing in Duisguise Episode 4 ~ The grotto's Episode 5 ~ Captive of the Mardierians Main characters: Alfie Fraunces, Sea Rats Samson Brody, unaffiliated scientist Jim, Alfie's first mate Captain Le Faou & his comrades Corrington naturalist turned privateer, name unknown. "We have no map Alfie. How do we know we are going the right way?" Jim said: "Let's go back to The Sereen Cay and plan some raids, maybe on Nova.." - "Look here lads!" Samson Brody interrupted: "Astounding this is. Truly marvelous..." Brody stopped and was looking at some flora growing at the tip the edge. The crew had been inland on the Rock for some days but had not seen any sign or clue to what might suggest the rumors were true. Alfie's crew was beginning to wonder Brody had any idea what he was looking for. "Look here: these are flowers are named Fonticulus!" The Sea-Rats stopped to take a look. "These flowers do not originally grow on this island! Someone has planted them here on purpose. They only grow in south-Corrington on Halos. This is a clear sign we are going he right way lads. Let's hurry!" And with those words the crew regained some faith in the eccentric scientist who promised treasure. Little did they know they were being followed.. The End ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ With this build I wanted to test on some rockwork I have seen on several images on Google/Flickr. Many thanks to all the AFOLs out there creating pirate-islands . Any comment is welcome. Episode 3 is coming. A better look on my attempt on rocking rockwork: Thanks for watching!

Cool build very lively! I like the watertechnique + land the most.

one if the most fun parts when building a MOC is constructing a new crew where did you get the red rudder? the brown aramda helmet? Or the special gun the monkey has?

The colours are really FANTASTIC and the shape is very elegant as well. Really good work.

Good voyages and save returns. The gallows look real.

Episodelist: Episode I ~ Samson Brody < you are here Episode 2 ~ Fonticulus Episode 3 ~ A Blessing in Duisguise Episode 4 ~ The grotto's Episode 5 ~ Captive of the Mardierians Main characters: Alfie Fraunces, Sea Rats Samson Brody, unaffiliated scientist Captain Le Faou & his comrades Corrington naturalist turned privateer, whom will be discovered in the coming episodes! "Gold? Here on the Crag? This is surely nonsense Samson. You came all this way to find.. to find what exactly?" A stern sea-rat coxswain told Samson Brody in Alfie's Place while drinking heavily: "How do you plan on finding this lake anyway? It'll take weeks to even map this dreadful rocky island." "What a pity, you are not the man nor do you have the stomach to lead an expedition.", Brody told the first mate irritated. "Gold?"~ Alfie Fraunces joined the two, who where enjoying themselves in his cafe. His men already told him about a Corrington-looking dandy who arrived in The Sereen Cay. "Alfie my name is. Welcome on the Crag. You where discussing?" Alfie spoke in Arlinsport dialect, the place Brody originated from as well. Hearing a fellow countrymen Brody answered: "A man of the fatherland, I hear! A fine establishment you run on this island sir. Very nice to meet a countrymen in a place so far from civilization indeed. I was just narrating the chances this island has to offer!" "Here we go again.." said the first mate before sipping his last bit of Trappist beer and leaving. Alfie was quickly interested and invited Brody to his office upstairs. There the two spoke about the legend of the Corrington Naturalist turned Privateer who was last seen on the Rock. The Naturalist was, according to Brody, and old friend of him years back on the university of Arlinsport. The story goes he left this earth and his treasure in a secret cave inside the Rock. A cave hard to find and harder to leave... Since the surface of the Rock was very difficult to enter and to investigate, Brody needed more men. "Hard to enter. Harder to exit. The perfect hiding place for a lifelong earned stash of gold mr. Fraunces! We will surely find whatever is on this island together!" smiled Brody. Little did they know, someone was eavesdropping... The uninvited guest of the conversation knew Alfie was up to something. And this particular pirate was know as capt. Le Faou. Le Faou and his crew where waiting for their ship: which was being repaired in The Sereen Cay after the tsunami in Mesabi Landing. "Listen up boys. We are bored out of our minds here. Today I passed by the cafe and overheard Alfie Fraunces talking to a real fancy lad. I swear they are up to find something and I intend to find out what it is. I say we we follow 'em, wait our time, and put them in the ground after stealing all valuables! Who's with me?" The End - For now. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi all and I hoped you like the introduction to a story I tend to build up in the coming months. In this community I value the high regards to quality over quantity accompanied by a good story: and I want to contribute. Landscaping is not my talent and therefore I thought a story in the Rock would be a good place to train my Moccing skills. Architecture I like much more, and I want to try new things as well as good old nostalgic aspects of LEGO pirates, as some here know. So constructive criticism is always welcome and enjoy the story! Much more is coming! An overall view of the last vignette:

Awesome build @Ced72. A lot of details, minifigposing, the bombardment canons look great and the fort really has the Caribbean feel to it.

I've seen it already many times come by at instagram and other pages. I really really love it. It has everything a complete pirate set need. A true gem. I hope LEGO makes this a real set someday but i doubt it. You are going steady on LEGO ideas as well!

I believe it isn't (according to what I found on Google), but you get what I mean.

Colours are good and I like the windows, the story and the door. But the "eyebrows" as i do not know the english nor French word of the windows I don't like. Also the roof could be better.. But a nice little Moc nontheless.

Eslandola challenge!!

@Khorne describes it perfectly! Nice scene!

Nice small scene!

Thanks!! I really love the 89 pirates and always try to get a little bit of the feeling those old sets had.. The new Pirates line was good as well, but that happened in my dark age. The shutters are static. Thanks!